Jan 20: Cleared / Expo 70 / Sam Prekop @ Burlington Chicago
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 10:56 am
Neon Marshmallow & Immune Recordings Present....
January 20th • Doors @ 8 • Music @ 9pm
Burlington - 3425 W. Fullerton Ave. Chicago • $8
Cleared
Expo 70
Sam Prekop
••• CLEARED RECORD RELEASE SHOW •••
••• CLEARED RECORD RELEASE SHOW •••
••• CLEARED RECORD RELEASE SHOW •••
Links
Neon Marshmallow • Facebook Event Page • Immune Recordings
Neon Marshmallow presents Cleared (Immune Recordings), Expo '70 (Immune Recordings), and Sam Prekop (Thrill Jockey). Chicago's Cleared (Steven Hess & Michael Vallera) will be releasing their new full-length album, Breaking Dawn. Dueling rhythms of drums and sampled percussion, walls of undulating soundscapes, and hypnotic guitar are deployed with heightened intensity and force. Fellow Neon Marshmallow Festival alums Expo 70 and Sam Prekop will also be performing. Performances take place at Chicago's Burlington on Friday, January 20, 2012. Doors open at 8pm.
Cleared (Immune Recordings) Chicago-based duo of Steven Hess & Michael Vallera. While their self-titled debut album (Immune 014, Jan 2011) found the duo exploring themes of stasis and texture, Breaking Day represents a huge development in the scope and overall style of the project. Where previous material had been slowly assembled from dozens of individual recordings and experiments, this new collection of songs was born from the raw documentation of Cleared's live performance in the studio. Elements of noise, drone, and psychedelia are filtered through a dark, unifying lens that ranges from relentless rhythmic assault to monolithic tonal sculpture. Dueling rhythms of drums and sampled percussion, walls of undulating soundscapes, and hypnotic guitar are deployed with heightened intensity and force.
Expo 70 (Kill Shaman | Immune Recordings) Since 2003 Justin Wright's Expo 70 project has been pushing drone and Kosmiche Musik to new realms, creating a layered world of sound that brings the listener to alien lands and foreign terrain while maintaining a dreamlike quality with shifting melodies and moods. Constant touring and a string of critically acclaimed albums released on labels such as Kill Shaman, Beta-lactam Ring, and Peasant Magik have clearly brought Expo 70's name to the forefront of modern drone and Kosmiche Musik.
Sam Prekop (Sea & Cake | Thrill Jockey) is known to most as the singer and songwriter of The Sea and Cake. He is a painter of some renown, a photographer and in addition he has released two solo albums of pop songs infused with his own blend of African and Brazilian guitar rhythms. Old Punch Card, his first solo effort since 2005, takes a dramatically unexpected turn away from either of these paths. Prekop described the move thus, "I'd have to say this record is pretty much unlike anything else I've done. There's some relation to music I made for my book "Photographs" but really only in instrumentation. The intro to The Sea and Cake's David Bowie cover of "Sound and Vision", on One Bedroom is an early precedent. The most significant difference, is that I've left the confines of "song" structure." The LP and CD each come in an edition of hand painted covers. "In painting the covers I found an appropriate shorthand to describing the music or re-imagining it. Start with nothing and without deduction an image appears reflecting only itself, the music arrived similarly." said Prekop.
♥ The Burlington has a sick sound system, 2 rooms & 2 bars that both have different craft beer selections. The back room / venue space is the ultimate chill zone in Chicago ♥
January 20th • Doors @ 8 • Music @ 9pm
Burlington - 3425 W. Fullerton Ave. Chicago • $8
Cleared
Expo 70
Sam Prekop
••• CLEARED RECORD RELEASE SHOW •••
••• CLEARED RECORD RELEASE SHOW •••
••• CLEARED RECORD RELEASE SHOW •••
Links
Neon Marshmallow • Facebook Event Page • Immune Recordings
Neon Marshmallow presents Cleared (Immune Recordings), Expo '70 (Immune Recordings), and Sam Prekop (Thrill Jockey). Chicago's Cleared (Steven Hess & Michael Vallera) will be releasing their new full-length album, Breaking Dawn. Dueling rhythms of drums and sampled percussion, walls of undulating soundscapes, and hypnotic guitar are deployed with heightened intensity and force. Fellow Neon Marshmallow Festival alums Expo 70 and Sam Prekop will also be performing. Performances take place at Chicago's Burlington on Friday, January 20, 2012. Doors open at 8pm.
Cleared (Immune Recordings) Chicago-based duo of Steven Hess & Michael Vallera. While their self-titled debut album (Immune 014, Jan 2011) found the duo exploring themes of stasis and texture, Breaking Day represents a huge development in the scope and overall style of the project. Where previous material had been slowly assembled from dozens of individual recordings and experiments, this new collection of songs was born from the raw documentation of Cleared's live performance in the studio. Elements of noise, drone, and psychedelia are filtered through a dark, unifying lens that ranges from relentless rhythmic assault to monolithic tonal sculpture. Dueling rhythms of drums and sampled percussion, walls of undulating soundscapes, and hypnotic guitar are deployed with heightened intensity and force.
Expo 70 (Kill Shaman | Immune Recordings) Since 2003 Justin Wright's Expo 70 project has been pushing drone and Kosmiche Musik to new realms, creating a layered world of sound that brings the listener to alien lands and foreign terrain while maintaining a dreamlike quality with shifting melodies and moods. Constant touring and a string of critically acclaimed albums released on labels such as Kill Shaman, Beta-lactam Ring, and Peasant Magik have clearly brought Expo 70's name to the forefront of modern drone and Kosmiche Musik.
Sam Prekop (Sea & Cake | Thrill Jockey) is known to most as the singer and songwriter of The Sea and Cake. He is a painter of some renown, a photographer and in addition he has released two solo albums of pop songs infused with his own blend of African and Brazilian guitar rhythms. Old Punch Card, his first solo effort since 2005, takes a dramatically unexpected turn away from either of these paths. Prekop described the move thus, "I'd have to say this record is pretty much unlike anything else I've done. There's some relation to music I made for my book "Photographs" but really only in instrumentation. The intro to The Sea and Cake's David Bowie cover of "Sound and Vision", on One Bedroom is an early precedent. The most significant difference, is that I've left the confines of "song" structure." The LP and CD each come in an edition of hand painted covers. "In painting the covers I found an appropriate shorthand to describing the music or re-imagining it. Start with nothing and without deduction an image appears reflecting only itself, the music arrived similarly." said Prekop.
♥ The Burlington has a sick sound system, 2 rooms & 2 bars that both have different craft beer selections. The back room / venue space is the ultimate chill zone in Chicago ♥